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so as not to interfere with the arrangements made for the current
year. The Chairman of the Kingston Grammar School
had, subsequently, on 10th December, written to the Trustees re-
questing a reconsideration of the action of the Board in the above
resolution of withdrawal. The letter having been referred to a
Committee the Principal, its Convenor, reported recommending "the
founding of two Scholarships of the annual value of one hundred
dollars - tenable for two years - to be competed for by pupils of any of
the Grammar Schools of the Province (in lieu of the Scholarships
withdrawn) so long as the funds of the University will admit of the
appropriation and the arrangement, after a fair trial, proves
satisfactory. The Report further recommends that it be represented
to the Chairman of the Kingston Grammar School Trustees, that
the previous arrangement for the Scholarships having been found
to be unsatisfactory to many members of the corporation of Queen's
University and College, and having failed to attain the object in
view, the above arrangement is substituted as one which is likely
to promote the interests of superior education more effectually".

The recommendations of the above Report were adopted with
the alteration, that" the Scholarships mentioned be open to all Students
entering the College, and that they be not confined to pupils
from any of the Grammar Schools of the Province of Canada"